"Stupid Petals" & Other Poems

These poems havebeen drawn from a portfolio in the November issue of the American Reader, available in our Shoppe.

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City of Bouncers

There’s the speed of golden ivy,the city wing. A hundred this weekendhaving wonderful meeting, not slamming,substantiated enough. Where there’s feet,the not-so-air-conditioned gent in the foyerwill invite you to a chop-busting. That willpatch up today’s industrious posetill the paint dries. Yes, and what about youand your project? Afraid it’ll grow beyondthe sustainable frontier, just like your Mawwarned you back in the day, when sistersalighted from planes looking breezy and collected?

Putting it on the take with the haircutI just limned, the event horizonought to be in fine shape by tomorrow.Look, we just want to cancel our order.Is that such a big deal, Danny boy?

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Stupid Petals

Remark the comparative zip and panacheof those beautiful hammerhead sharks.Farther down we get into reptiles,the “bucket of mud club.”

I don’t even know if there was a Klondike Scotty.Lamassu, a protective deitysketched by Gutzon Borglum, intervened,twice. And you could… one of the top—

Our weatherologist is here.

You’re talking to myself—a slave never forgets its name.I can put it off right now, summonyour blasphemous magician friend.

So he’s not thirty-eight yet.Sure, Mario had a dentist appointment.So’s your old man run weapons through your eyes.I wanted to read that book, close the circus.We don’t speak to John againand there’s a lot of them.

Like other millennials I could get you a line.I wish I had been there!Days you want to be careful,you still have to live here.Shopping wasn’t safe. OMG. A Fortunyslick, basking on uninterested waters,turns to leave. But it’s not over.

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Listening Tour

We were arguing about whether NBCwas better than CBS. I said CBSbecause it’s smaller and had to workharder to please viewers. You didn’tlike either that much but preferredsmaller independent companies.Just then an avalanche flewoverhead, light blue against thesky’s determined violet. Westarted to grab our stuff butit was too late. We segued…

And in another era the revolutionswere put down by the farmers,working together with the peasantsand the enlightened classes. Allbenefited in some way. That wasall I had to hear.Whatever…